Thursday, August 14, 2008

Ego boosting news paper scans!

To anyone actually following this blog; sorry about the very slow rate at which I post here.I figure it is better to do less posts, with lots of substance, than more posts that are just pointless and completely uninteresting.

Also, I've been working like 15 hours a day on my final semester uni project, which is sending me slightly mental, so I haven't had time to try anything else constructive (I'll make sure to post some updates on how that is going a bit further down the track).

Anyway, since a couple of friends have been asking to see them, I thought I'd better scan-in-and-upload a few of me super famous news paper appearances of the last few weeks.

So here you go:

This was the first one to be published, the guys from the Extra:Tech section of the Herald sun decided to do a short write up for the July 16th news paper:

Soon after that, The Australian called me to ask a few questions, they also sent out a photographer to get some snaps, this article was published on the front page of the Higher Education section in the 23rd of July paper.Also that week, the Moonee Valley Community News called as well as the Leader, to organise a photographer to be sent out , unfortunately I was going away on a ski trip with some friends that week, so the leader wasn't able to get a photographer out in time, but the community news was able to.

The photographer from the community news was really nice and totally took the best pictures I reckon (the guys from the bigger papers were a lot older and kind of hostile).So I totally hit the front page of the local paper as you can see here:And there was a photo of both me and Emily on page 12.Holy crap, I am so pasty white in this picture, you can't even see where my T-shirt ends and my arm starts....So yeah, all this has been quite beneficial for me, especially since I am finishing uni in a few months and will be looking for a job soon, and any publicity is good publicity.

I reckon the coolest part so far though is hearing from other people who have been inspired to make their own giant videogame accessories and stuff.That's a pretty fucking cool feeling; inspiring people.

My favourite so far is definitely Matt from http://scadinc.blogspot.com/ who has (apparantly just finished) making a giant SNES pad.That thing looks fucking awesome, I'm pretty impressed by how he has done the round edges, that's a whole lot of gap filler he must have used there...The only problem I've got is the colours, he totally should have done the PAL/Jap colours, the US version of the SNES just looked like arse, with it's pansy purple colours.But either way, that takes nothing away from his awesome craftsmanship.

Oh also; every asking for a wiring diagram for the controller;There is none! Just locate ground on the pad and wire it to the ground wire in the buttons, then link each of the "active" (or whatever you call them) wires to their corresponding ones.The Male/Female plug was just so that I could unplug the controller from the original.Either way, I might post a tutorial in the future explaining how to wire old controllers into USB-computer controllers, so you can play NES/SNES/Megadrive etc. emulators with their original controllers.

19 comments:

Thats pretty awesome that you made it to so many papers. I agree with you that the 4 color buttons on the snes controller are much cooler looking, but I just had to do the purple one... its what I grew up with. Too bad they didn't just make all of them like that. I've gotten pretty decent with playing super mario world with the beast. Most of the early levels are no problem, and I can get a fair amount into the bowser battle before I get clobbered. I'd like to 96* one of the files entirely with the big controller, but all 3 of my files are 96*... thats how much I love SNES. might have to delete one. Well thanks again for the plug to my site. Let me know what you think when the finished pictures go up!

I just found out about this NES table today, and it's great. It has inspired me to make an arcade cabinet using an oversized NES controller in place of the control panel. An SNES controller would have more buttons, but the rectangular shape of the NES controller will fit much better.

It's not as cool as your table, but at least it won't be exactly the same. Hopefully I get it started relatively soon.

G'day mate. A friend of mine had a link to you from his blog and said that you had did something that was awesome. so I came and I saw and he was right.http://mjgolch.blogspot.com If you are interested!